Psalms 79:5
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
In Context
4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Psalms 13:1How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 74:9We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
Psalms 80:5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
Psalms 89:46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 79:2-6
Mournful Complaints. 1 O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 5 How long, Lord ? wilt thou be… Read the whole commentary →